Jensen connects abstract ideas with the everyday political and spiritual struggles of ordinary people. Free of either academic or political jargon, this book is for anyone struggling to understand our world and contribute to making it a better place. Jensen patiently, honestly, and rigorously exemplifies the highest virtues of a public intellectual.
Arguing for Our Lives: Critical Thinking in Crisis Times
Meanwhile decades of advertising, sound bites, PR, filtered information, and internet trolling have numbed us even more. But we don't have to live this way. We could immediately start living in a better world, one in which every conversation was an opportunity to learn more about ourselves, others, and the precious little world we all have to try to live on together. To do that, though, we would have to re-learn how to think and talk, how to agree and disagree.
Resurgent Politics in the Age of Disposability Paradigm, The "news" has degenerated into sensationalist sound bites, and the idea of debate has become a polarized shouting match that Arguing for Our Lives: Jensen connects abstract ideas with the everyday political and spiritual struggles of ordinary people. Free of either academic or political jargon, this book is for anyone struggling to understand our world and contribute to making it a better place.
Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialogue
Robert Jensen reacquaints us with the political and social skills we'll need if we're to reclaim politics for the 21st century. This is a brave book, one that packs more wisdom in its few pages than a shelf's worth of political theory, because it's also a book about political practice. Jensen patiently, honestly, and rigorously exemplifies the highest virtues of a public intellectual. Meanwhile decades of advertising, sound bites, PR, filtered information, and internet trolling have numbed us even more.
But we don't have to live this way.
We could immediately start living in a better world, one in which every conversation was an opportunity to learn more about ourselves, others, and the precious little world we all have to try to live on together. To do that, though, we would have to re-learn how to think and talk, how to agree and disagree.
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